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Sola Media takes on sales for $3m Turtle's Song
Germany-based sales company Sola Media has picked up rights to nature documentary The Turtle's Song, from UK producers Film & Music Entertainment and Big Wave Productions. Sola has world rights excluding Austria and Finland to the theatrical feature produced by F&ME's Mike Downey, Sam Taylor and Zorana Piggott and Big ...
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New Danish Screen to get new head at end of 2007
The Danish Film Institute's New Danish Screen department will see big changes in 2007. Vinca Wiedemann has announced that she will not reapply for her position as head of the division, and will leave when her contract expires on Sept 1, 2007.The department has more new challenges and new initiatives ...
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Italy soars, Japan and North America sour in global box office
Six of the nine major territories saw increases in box office takings this week but drops in the North American and Japanese markets accounted for a virtually static year-on-year comparison, according to the Screen International Screen Index. Collective global grosses were boosted by just 0.19% compared to the same week ...
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Israel's The Bubble picked up by Strand
Strand Releasing has snapped up US rights to Israeli director Eytan Fox's Panorama title, The Bubble, it was confirmed this week. The deal was negotiated between Jon Gerrans of Strand Releasing and Pierre Menahem of Scalpel Films. Strand Releasing plans an August opening for the film across the US. The ...
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Trust ramps up international sales with Bier, Troell films
Oscar-nominated Danish director Susanne Bier (After The Wedding) is to make an international drama about a Holocaust survivor. Julius - the project's working title - is about a former prisoner at notorious death camp KZ who moves to Israel. Here, his past eventually catches up with him. The producer of ...
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Gaumont previews Leclerq sci-fi feature in Berlin
Gaumont has announced a $12 million first feature from director Julien Leclercq.Chrysalis, is a science-fiction action thriller set in Paris in the year 2020 about two people with nothing in common: an innocent girl looking for her lost memories and a cop forced to pay for his.The cast includes Albert ...
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Jentsch cast as Girl In The Cafe
Silver Bear-winning actress Julia Jentsch (Sophie Scholl - The Final Days), who appears in Jiri Menzel's Competition film I Served The King Of England this year, has been cast opposite Jan Josef Liefers (Knocking On Heaven's Door) in the German version of Richard Curtis' The Girl In The Cafe.The Egoli ...
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Rai Trade's Caravaggio heads to Japan with Tokyo Theatres
On the eve of the European Film Market in Berlin, Rai Trade has announced an eyecatching Japanese deal on its new title, Angelo Longoni's Caravaggio. On the basis of the rushes, Tokyo Theatres have picked up all rights to the biopic, which tells the story of the troubled but brilliant ...
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Richard Branson to star in global warming awareness expedition
Arctic and Antarctic explorer and environmental campaigner Will Steger has begun production on the documentary Baffin Island Expedition '07: The Explorers featuring famed Mount Everest mountaineer Ed Viesturs, Richard Branson and his son Sam. The project marks the launch of the newly established Will Steger Foundation's Global Warming 101 education ...
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Avanzit buys out Notro Films
Spanish distributor and producer Notro Films has been acquired by media company Avanzit. Notro founding partner Jose Maria Irisarri, former CEO and current advisor of TV powerhouses Globo Media and Grupo Arbol, has been named executive president of Avanzit's media filial. Notro - which was launched in September 2004 by ...
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Nordisk invests in Maipo with view to European expansion
Danish major Nordisk Film has purchased a major stake in Oslo-based production house Maipo Film & TV-Produksjon. Set up in 2000 by Norwegian producer Dag Alveberg, who has produced 15 features, Maipo has backed 10 films and a television series - including the Oscar-nominated Elling, by Petter Næss - to ...
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Pursuit of Happyness set to blitz international box office
The Pursuit Of Happyness is well on its way toward $100m following last weekend's dominant performance, and Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) executives will hope to sustain momentum with launches in 22 new markets this weekend. The Will Smith drama had amassed $71.1m as of Feb 5 and, while the ...
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Wild Bunch declares war on Dieter Kosslick
After a slow burn of increasing upset with Berlin festival director Dieter Kosslick, French sales, financing and distribution outfit Wild Bunch has declared that it is boycotting the EFM and declaring a 'period of sanction' on its films in future Berlin competitions.The company has cancelled its market stand and, in ...
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Nitschke returns to Senator Film
Anatol Nitschke, head of distribution at Berlin's X Verleih since 2000, is returning to Senator Film on April 1 to serve as co-managing director of Senator Film Verleih and Senator Home Entertainment along with Peter Heinzemann.Nitschke, who headed Senator Film Verleih between 1999 and 2000, will be responsible for marketing, ...
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Dresdner Kleinwort explores European 'fund of funds'
Having pumped more than $4.6bn into a variety of Hollywood slate deals in the past two years, German bank Dresdner Kleinwort is now looking at Europe to see whether a similar co-financing structure could enable a portfolio of European films from different production sources. The bank's New York-based media and ...
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Constantin extends pay TV rights deal with Premiere
Constantin Film has extended its output deal with German pay TV channel Premiere for rights to its in-house and co-productions by another two years from January 1, 2007 to the end of 2008.In addition to highlights of the existing contract which was signed in February 2004, such as Perfume - ...
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Ealing strikes European deals for Carmen Electra project
Ealing Studios International, the new sales arm of Ealing Studios, has licensed UK comedy I Want Candy in three key territories prior to the film's market premiere at the EFM. Square One Entertainment took German theatrical rights, while Revolutionary Releasing has taken rights for Eastern Europe excluding the CIS. Buena ...
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Shoreline bags worldwide rights to Man In The Chair
Shoreline Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights from Elbow Grease Pictures to Michael Schroeder's drama Man In The Chair, set to play on Saturday [10] in the Generation 14plus programme at the Berlinale.The film stars Christopher Plummer, Michael Angarano, and M Emmet Walsh and tells of an aspiring teenage film-maker who ...
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Mdc int adds Iszka's Journey, La Antena to Berlinale line-up
Berlin-based sales company Mdc int has made two last-minute additions to its line-up for this year's market in Berlin.International distribution will be handled on Argentine Esteban Sapir's La Antena which was the opening film of the Tiger Competition in Rotterdam last week and is described as an 'enchanting fairytale about ...
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Nanni Moretti and long-time producer part ways
Film making duo Nanni Moretti and producer Angelo Barbagallo have separated after 20 years of film making together, Italian media reported Wednesday. The pair's prolific collaboration has produced Moretti's best-known work such as Dear Diary (Caro Diario, 1993), April (Aprile, 1998), 2001 Palme d'Or winner The Son's Room (La Stanza ...